Most of all, coal was equated with honest jobs for hard-working miners (and voters)....The shift from coal to diesel and natural gas was framed not as mere consumer choice between commodities, but as an attack on some ineffable American value.

Later in Tuesday night's speech, attempting to advance his proposal to limit legal immigration, Trump equated other legal immigrants to terrorists and exaggerated the limited ability legal immigrants have to bring their families here.

His reluctance to condemn or his refusal to condemn white supremacists and to morally equate those white supremacists with protesters against white supremacy was probably one of the most stunning examples of that.

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